Word: tuxedoed
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...next thing to do was buy a tuxedo, as the finals were strictly formal and I didn't own one. So over vacation I went to about six used-clothing stores and tried on about 30 tuxes that were big enough for someone else to get in with me until I found one that fit--midnight blue but baggy--for 13 dollars in a Veteran's Warehouse on the east side ghetto of my hometown. I could borrow the cummerbund from my roommate, and my mother found an ancient pair of suspenders with leather loops up in the attic...
...THERE I AM, it's 8:15 p.m., boiling in my tuxedo and drenching my underclothes and my throat is so dry you could fry an egg on it. Right next to me, Howard O'Brien is fingering this little brown Vicks lozenge and I whisper in his ear and he gives it to me. I just let it melt slowly in my mouth and try to time it so there's still a little juice from it left when it's actually my turn. You can tell everyone's in top form--there are no goofs in the readings...
...artistic realism embodied-as it were-in the Body Language series is part of a proud trompe l'oeil T shirt tradition that is already months old. Some samples, now on the streets and in fashionable discothèques: a shirt that looks like a tuxedo jacket, shirt and bow tie -complete with a flower in the lapel; another that is indistinguishable from a sailor suit; and one, owned by San Francisco TV Reporter Bill Schechner, that is apparently a green sports shirt and blue tie looped in a Windsor knot. "I wear it on the air when...
...will admit that upon his first entrance, Stulberg's brown-turtlenecked attire impressed me as representative of a healthy, interesting attitude toward his music. "At last," I thought, "I can enjoy a concert which is not overpowered by the conductor's flash of tuxedo and lace." Little did I know how wrong...
...driver. Smothers' wife Linda thinks she knows the reason for Juan Fangio's success: "Turtles are supposed to like lettuce, tomatoes and broccoli, but ours will eat raw hamburger." Says Jim Duffer, master of ceremonies at Brennan's, who calls the races attired in a green tuxedo: "I can't stand the little beasts. They bite...